Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are numerous, varied, and ubiquitous, emanating mostly from industrial plants, although the natural world also emits a measure of naturally occurring chemical compounds. The risks associated with industrial VOCs are complicated by the fact that hazardous concentrations are...
For many years now, aluminum has been successfully recycled on an industrial scale. The scrap metal is simply melted and used to make new products such as car bodies. Although recycling conserves natural resources, standard combustion processes offer room for improvement....
Praxair, Inc. (praxair.com) and Midrex Technologies Inc. (midrex.com) have signed a strategic alliance agreement to develop and market new process technology for the production of direct reduced iron (DRI) with a variety of fuels such as coke oven gas. The new...
The development and commercialization of new medical drugs is a complex and costly process and the pharmaceutical industry continues to demand ever more advanced products. The process of drug discovery revolves around identifying one molecule among millions of candidate molecules, followed...
The healthcare market for the industrial gas industry is characterized by gas producers and distributors that supply oxygen, nitrous oxide, anesthesia gases, special mixtures, and related services. An array of new gases, related equipment, and healthcare technologies, including a broadening...
The Industrial Gas Industry supplies a variety of fuel gases used in metal cutting and related metal fabrication applications. The most frequently used of these gases are acetylene, propylene, propane, natural gas, and some “mixture” fuel gases including Chemtane, Chemolene, and...
On June 19, 2012, Jeff Serfass, Managing Director at California Hydrogen Business Council and President of the Hydrogen Education Foundation, welcomed top hydrogen and fuel cell industry executives, including Cryo- Gas publisher, J. R. “Buzz” Campbell, to The Washington Fuel Cell Summit...
Over 1,100 leading manufacturers and 25,000 attendees will converge at the Las Vegas Convention Center for FABTECH 2012 from November 12–14. The action-packed, three-day event is a convenient one-stop shop to source the best products...
Customers, distributors, and gas manufacturers all want it. So do regulatory authorities and local emergency responders. “It” is a reliable and simple tool for keeping track of cylinders (and other gas containers). Every reader here already knows about many of...
In this, the seventh article in a series on Continuous Improvement as a key business strategy, the authors look at how eliminating waste in the workplace positions a successful company for greater achievements, efficiencies, and productivity. Gas and Supply (gasandsupply.com), headquartered...
